The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.
Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.
Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief
What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.
God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
The comforting thing to the horse is, is as you become more and more accurate, he knows you’re aware of him, and pretty soon because of that he’s aware of you more and more of the time.
Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.
Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.
I sighed. 'It's hard. You're the only one who listens to what I have to say. ' Longshot dropped a gentle, comforting arm around my shoulders. 'Then speak louder, girl. Don't let them put out your spark.
For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict.
When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.